Grazing Chickens

[Kebria]

I like to raise free range chickens for meat and eggs. I like raising an organic garden and my chickens get the benefit of it. I usually raise breeds listed as old breeds and avoid genetically modified organisms in both animals and vegetables.

 

[TwoCrows]

Welcome to BYC!

Raising them old school is always the best way for good meat and eggs.

Great to have you aboard and enjoy all your adventures!

 

[Tuhmu]

and good luck with all your poultry adventures!

That's one of the best parts about having chickens, watching them out foraging.....just being chickens

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

 

[Kelsie2290]

Hello and Welcome To BYC! You might like some of the heritage breed threads on BYC if you do a search, ie here is the biggest one https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/849075/heritage-large-fowl-phase-ii

 

[drumstick diva]

 

[Kebria]

Thanks, I'm glad i was told about BYC. My older relatives in the family, (grandparents, great-grand parents) always had chickens kept as a main source of food and survival. Only in the last few years, after being tested and diagnosed to be allergic to chickens and eggs by an allergist did i figure out that I was not allergic to home raised chickens or eggs, just store bought. I talked to my 105 year. old grandmother at the time and she told me what she did to butcher and cook chickens. The revival of the the lost arts of growing and processing home raised food has done wonders for my family's health. My daughter and i raised 60 White Rocks last year from peeps, we're using them for both the meat and the eggs this year. We have about 12 roosters. I like to get them on the green grass before butcher to raise the omega 3 fatty acids in the meat. I'm anxious to get the chickens on pasture but the temps have made it a late spring.

 

[Kelsie2290]

Hope spring gets here fast and you can get your birds out on pasture, think everyone is tired of winter and more than ready for spring, the crocus have not even really started growing yet, think this is the latest I remember them being. Here is a nice thread on grazing chickens also https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ur-yard-for-increasing-free-ranging-nutrition

 

[sourland]

Welcome to BYC - good luck in your projects.

 

[Kebria]

My young White Rock roosters are beginning to fight and they look hilarious. They are only a year old and each one thinks he is the king of the barnyard! There is one rooster that appears to be the dominant.